"They stared at each other for almost a minute, and neither moved. Then he said in a voice that was higher than his usual voice, "What I mean to have you know is: I am no Goddam preacher." Wise Blood, p. 17

"Then he knew that whatever was expected of him was just the beginning." Wise Blood, p. 52

"Now I just want to give you folks a few reasons why you can trust this church," he said. "In the first place, friends, you can rely on it that it's nothing foreign connected with it. You don't have to believe nothing you don't understand and approve of." Wise Blood, p. 78

"The old man's thought did not always move at the same rate of speed through every point in his story." The Violent Bear it Away, p. 128